Have you ever been to Kerpoof.com? It is a great website that has many free offerings for teachers and students. This last week we (the class) worked on a section called "spell a picture". It is fairly fun but mostly recommended for K-3 (3rd grade is even cutting it close). The students get the alphabet in front of them and a scene that they chose. Then they can spell site words and the image will come up on the screen for them to put onto their scene. For example-if they spelled rabbit correctly, a rabbit would appear and they can put that in their scene. They can also add actions as well (if you type snow, it will begin to snow). A fun activity for the kids to work on.
Next time we go to this site we will begin create a movie section where students can actually create scenes with dialogue and moving characters. More on this next time we go to this site. Hope you enjoy.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Weebly (the next step after kidblog)
http://education.weebly.com/
The blogging in class is just the beginning for my students. My ultimate goal is to get the students creating a website that can incorporate their blog. I am planning on using Weebly. I have used it for another class and I really liked how easy it was for the students to work with it. It was also free (can't beat that). I could also use Google Sites and I am heavily weighing that option, but I am still leaning towards Weebly because I find it more kid friendly.
If you have ever used another site and have any recommendations I would love to hear them. If you check out Weebly after this post and have any opinions that would be great as well to hear. Hopefully you check it out.
The blogging in class is just the beginning for my students. My ultimate goal is to get the students creating a website that can incorporate their blog. I am planning on using Weebly. I have used it for another class and I really liked how easy it was for the students to work with it. It was also free (can't beat that). I could also use Google Sites and I am heavily weighing that option, but I am still leaning towards Weebly because I find it more kid friendly.
If you have ever used another site and have any recommendations I would love to hear them. If you check out Weebly after this post and have any opinions that would be great as well to hear. Hopefully you check it out.
Friday, September 16, 2011
Kidblog.org
Wow, www.kidblog.org has been a tremendous site for my 3rd grade students. It is a free blogging site in which the teacher can control what comments go through for each child's posts. The students have been blogging about activities that they have done in class, their reading, and their favorite parts of school so far. The students are working hard on learning how to comment to one another. Actually, the comments to posts has been the most difficult part so far. Many comments are very short such as "good job" or "hahaha". We are learning to write more meaningful posts and will need to have a full lesson on that. I highly recommend this site for teachers trying blogs in their classroom for the first time.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Destiny Quest-a digital library resource
Hello,
The first piece of information I am going to implement with my classroom this year is the use of Destiny Quest. Destiny Quest is a digital library resource in which students can put books on hold, look up books at our school library, and comment and rate books. They can also create a friends page in which they can "friend" other students at the school and share book choices with one another. I like this as a starter to the year because it is a simple way for me to teach netiquette to the classroom and how to create a powerful posts about books. It is a safe environment and both myself and the librarian see all posts to make sure posts are within the rules. I believe this is a district wide used website. Here is a link if you are interested in seeing what it looks like:
https://destiny.sccresa.org/quest/servlet/presentquestform.do?site=100&context=peckcs
The first piece of information I am going to implement with my classroom this year is the use of Destiny Quest. Destiny Quest is a digital library resource in which students can put books on hold, look up books at our school library, and comment and rate books. They can also create a friends page in which they can "friend" other students at the school and share book choices with one another. I like this as a starter to the year because it is a simple way for me to teach netiquette to the classroom and how to create a powerful posts about books. It is a safe environment and both myself and the librarian see all posts to make sure posts are within the rules. I believe this is a district wide used website. Here is a link if you are interested in seeing what it looks like:
https://destiny.sccresa.org/quest/servlet/presentquestform.do?site=100&context=peckcs
Introductions
Hello,
My name is Robert Alvarez. I teach 3rd grade in San Ramon, California. One of my focuses for this year's class is to implement useful technology into the classroom. With this blog I will be sharing some of the techniques I will be using in my classroom. I hope you enjoy what I have to post and receiving feedback would be great. Thanks for listening!
My name is Robert Alvarez. I teach 3rd grade in San Ramon, California. One of my focuses for this year's class is to implement useful technology into the classroom. With this blog I will be sharing some of the techniques I will be using in my classroom. I hope you enjoy what I have to post and receiving feedback would be great. Thanks for listening!
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